Gernot Wagner is a research associate at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy, and an associate at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Wrote Climate Shock, joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton University Press (2015), a 2015 Top 15 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year; and But will the planet notice?, published by Hill & Wang/Farrar Strauss & Giroux (2011).

Teaches “Climate Policy—Past, Present, and Future” at Harvard College. Previously he taught energy economics as adjunct associate professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (2011 – 2015) and at NYU Stern School of Business (2016).

Served as economist at the Environment Defense Fund (2008 – 2016), most recently as its lead senior economist (2014 – 2016) and member of its Leadership Council (2015 – 2016). He currently consults for EDF.

Holds a joint bachelor’s magna cum laude with highest honors in environmental science, public policy, and economics, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard, as well as a master’s in economics from Stanford.

Is a visiting research associate at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife, Siripanth Nippita, a gynecologist at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and their two young children, Annan and Sonja.